Today, states face structural deficits created by overspending. Most of the legislative “fixes” over the past few years for state budget gaps have merely postponed or obscured the problems rather than addressing them directly.
ALEC’s State Budget Reform Toolkit will advance a set of budget and procurement best practices to guide state policymakers as they work to solve the current budget shortfalls, assisting legislators in prioritizing and more efficiently delivering core government services through advancing Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty.
For more information about the State Budget Reform Toolkit, contact Jonathan Williams, ALEC Chief Economist and Vice President of the Center for State Fiscal Reform, at 571-482-5066 or at jwilliams@alec.org.
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